ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Marianne Klemun


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  • Curriculum Vitae

    Name: Marianne KLEMUN

    Date of birth: 9 April 1955

    Place of birth: Ruden, Austria

    Nationality: Austrian

    Marital status: Married

    Currently position: Professor (Ao.-Prof.) at the Department of History, Univ. Vienna

    Fields of Interest: History of Science, Natural History in a cultural context

     

    School education

    • 1963 – 1966 Primary School Ruden, Austria
    • 1967 – 1974 Grammar School in Klagenfurt, Austria

     

    University education

    • 1974: University of Vienna. Fields of study: History, German Language and Literature, History of Art, and biological and geological subjects.
    • 1982: MA in German Language and Literature, History and Teaching
    • 1992: PhD in History at the University of Vienna
    • 2002: Habilitation and Professor at the Dept. of Modern History of the Univ. of Vienna

     

    Professional Experience

    • 1976-1982: Teacher in Adult Education: “German for Foreigners” at state-funded evening schools
    • 1977-1982: Numerous training courses and wide experience in the field of “German for Foreigners” in Germany (Nuremberg, etc.)
    • 1982:   Assistant teacher at a grammar school in Vienna
    • 1982-1991 Postdoc at the Department of Modern History, Univ. of Vienna
    • 1986-1992: Research in Klagenfurt (Austria), Graz (Austria), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Trieste (Italy), Munich, Berlin, London and Sibiu (Romania)
    • 1992-2002: Ass. Prof. at the Department of Mod. History, Univ. of Vienna
    • 1997: Board member of the Austrian Society for History of Science
    • 1997-2004: Consultant for equal rights for women within the Faculty of Cult. Studies
    • Since 2004: Elected Membership in the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences INHIGEO
    • Since 2005-2014: Elected Member of the “Commission for Hist. of Sciences” at the Academy of Sciences (Vienna)
    • 2006-2012 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Cultural –History, University in Vienna
    • Since 2007 Head and Member of the Group “Öffentlichkeitsarbeit” of the Faculty
    • 2007: Visiting Professor at Jena (Germany) and teaching in History of Geology
    • 2009-2012: Councellor and Member of the Nominating Committee of the Earth Science Society (USA)
    • 2011-2012: Vice Director of the Department of History, University of Vienna
    • Oct 2016 - 2020: Head of the Working Group History of Science at the Department
    • Sept. 2016-2020 General Secretary of the INHIGEO
    • Oct. 2020 Retirement, continued teaching
    • 2020-2028 Vice-President of Europe (INHIGEO)
    • 2022 Member of the Board of the Lieben-Gesellschaft
    • 2020-2022 Elected President of HESS (History of Earth Science Society)
    • 2022-2024 President of HESS (United States)
    • 2024-2026 Past-President of HESS (United States)

     

    Curated Museum Exhibitions

    • 1998: Concept and organisation of the exhibition “Workshop Nature in Carinthia” in the County Museum for Carinthia
    • 1999: Concept of the exhibition “Franz Unger’” at the Institute of Ecology and Vegetation Ecology (Faculty of Science and Math.) Vienna
    • 2000: Scientific conception of the exhibition “200th Anniversary of the First Ascent of the Grossglockner in Carinthia” , in Carinthia
    • 2012-2013: Co-curator of the Exhibition "Gelehrte Objekte" at the Austrian Museum of Ethnology, Vienna

     

    INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT (Selection)

    • Botanical Garden at Klagenfurt (Carinthia)
    • Centro interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia in Lisbon
  • Awards
    • 2010: Wulfen-Price by Carinthian Natural History Society
    • 2000 korrespondierendes Mitglied des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Kärnten
    • 2022 Mary C. Rabbitt History and Philosophy of Geology Award 2022 der Geological Society of America
    • 2022 Ehrenmedaille des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten
    • 2022 Korrespondentin der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (nun GeoSphere Austria)
  • Social Media

    Radio Interview: Gregor Mendel (2016) etc.

    Concept of “uni-fiction” Stories (Science communication) about the History of the University of Vienna on the homepage of the University (since 12 March 2014)

Research

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  • Research Interests
    • History of science
    • history of natural sciences in a cultural context (botany, travelling, botanical gardens, expeditions)
    • history of earth science
  • Projects
  • Conference Organisation

    Selection

    • Together with Ana Carneiro: Organisation of the Session: „Textbooks and Handbooks as an Instrument of Power” (Symposium Nr. 41, 10 papers), at: 7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science: “Science and Power, Science as Power”, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 22–24 September 2016.
    • Commentator of 9 papers: “Skulls and roses: natural History collection and their meaning in 18–19th centuries, at: 7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science: “Science and Power, Science as Power”, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 22–24 September 2016.
    • Organisation of the Conference: Eduard Suess (1831–1914). Politik – Wissenschaft – Verantwortung, University of Vienna, 25 April, 2014.
    • Organiser of the session ‘Addressing the Dynamics of Museums’, at ‘Science and Technology in the European Periphery’, 9th STEP Meeting, Centro interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, 1 - 3 September 2014, Lisbon).
    • Organiser of the session (with Marita Hübner) ‘Antiquarism – crossing regions, oceans, and field of knowledge’, at Scientiae 2014, Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World’; 23 - 25 April 2014, Juridicum, Vienna.
    • Organiser of the symposium ‘Scientific Expeditions: Local Practices and Cosmopolitan Discourses’, with Ulrike Spring (Sogndal, Norwegen), at: 5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science: Scientific Cosmopolitanism and Local Cultures: Religions, Ideologies, Societies, at:, 1 - 3 November, 2013, 12 Speakers, Athens.
    • Organiser of the session (with Elmar Schübl): ‘Historicized Nature – ‘Naturalized’ History’, at the 13th International Congress for Eighteenth Century Studies, 25 – 29 July 2011, in Graz.
    • Organiser of the session ‘”Moved” Natural Objects – Spaces in Between’. 4th International Conference for the History of Science, 18 - 20 November 2010, Barcelona.
    • Organiser of the Symposium ‘Unity in Diversity’. Franz Ungers Natural Research in International Context. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2009.
    • Organiser of the panel ‘“Bewegte” Naturobjekte – Zwischenräume’, at: Kulturgeschichtetag in Linz, 12 – 15 September 2009.
    • Organiser of the symposium (with Ana Carneiro): ‘Seeing and Measuring, Constructing and Judging: Instruments in the History of the Earth Sciences’. Introduction to this symposium with 12 participants; at: XXIII International Congress of Science and Technology (ICHST 2009). ‘Ideas and Instruments in Social Context’, 27 July – 2 August 2009, Budapest.
    •  Introduction in the Topic (Session Organiser of) “Geological State Surveys: geological Maps as acts of synthesis and as evidences of differing styles of thinking”: ESHS, 3rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Vienna, September 10–12, 2008.
    • Session organizer of (together with Nicolas Robin): “Botany between Knowledge and Science: Images, Interspaces, Experiences and Gender” – Paper: “Systematic botany in the romantic Vienna and ‘Voyages into the flower fields of life’”, at: ISHPSSB (International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology) Meeting in Exeter (Centre for Genomics in Society) University of Exeter, July 25–29, 2007.
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Professional Service

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  • Fellowship and Membership
    • 1997: Board member of the Austrian Society for History of Science
    • Since 2004: Elected Membership in the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences INHIGEO
    • Since 2005-2014: Elected Member of the “Commission for Hist. of Sciences” at the Academy of Sciences (Vienna)
    • Since 2007 Head and Member of the Group “Öffentlichkeitsarbeit” of the Faculty
    • 2009-2012: Councellor and Member of the Nominating Committee of the Earth Science Society (USA)
    • Oct 2016 - 2020: Head of the Working Group History of Science at the Department
    • Sept. 2016-2020 General Secretary of the INHIGEO
    • 2020-2028 Vice-President of Europe (INHIGEO)
    • 2022 Member of the Board of the Lieben-Gesellschaft
    • 2020-2022 Elected President of HESS (History of Earth Science Society)
    • 2022-2024 President of HESS (United States)
    • 2024-2026 Past-President of HESS (United States)
  • Editorship
    • Marianne Klemun / Ulrike Spring (Eds.): Scientific Expeditions as Experiments (London, New York, Melbourne: Palgrave & Macmillan 2016).
    • Einheit und Vielfalt. Franz Ungers (1800–1870) Konzepte der Naturforschung im internationalen Kontext (Vienna University Press, Göttingen 2016).
    • Marianne Klemun, Hubert Szemethy, Fritz Blakolmer und Martina Fuchs (Hg.): 1365 – 2015 – 2065. Etwas andere Geschichten der Universität Wien (Wien 2015). Together with Hubert Szemethy, Fritz Blakolmer und Martina Fuchs, translated from German by Bryan Jenner (Hg.): 1365 – 2015 – 2065. “Once there was a Student“: Other Stories of the University of Vienna (Vienna 2015).
    • Marianne Klemun, Hubert Szemethy, Martina Fuchs, Fritz Blakolmer und Matthias Beitl (Hg.): Gelehrte Objekte – Wege zum Wissen. Aus den Sammlungen der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät  (= Kataloge des Österreichischen Museums für Volkskunde 2013, 98).
    • (As Guest Editor): Moved Natural Objects. Spaces in Between (= Host Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol. 5, Spring, 2012) online-journal:  http://johost.eu/
    • Marianne Klemun / Thomas Hofmann (Hg.): Die k. k. Geologische Reichsanstalt in den ersten Jahrzehnten ihres Wirkens. Neue Zugänge und Forschungsfragen (= Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 95, Wien 2012).
    • Marianne Klemun / Ana Carneiro (Eds.): Seeing and Measuring, Constructing and Judging: Instruments in the History of the Earth Sciences (= Centaurus, An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects, Vol. 53, Issue 2, 2011).
    • Wissenschaft und Kolonialismus (Hg): (= Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 9/2, 2009).
    • Marianne Klemun / Veronika Hofer (Hg.): Bildfunktionen in den Wissenschaften (= Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 7/1, 2007).
    • Der Hochobir. Aus Natur und Geschichte, Marianne Klemun Hg. (Schriftleitung gem. mit B. Golob et.al, Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Kärnten)  (Klagenfurt 1999).

     

    CO-EDITOR OF JOURNALS

    • Wiener Beiträge zur Geschichte der Neuzeit, Wien 1983 – 1997.
    • Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit, 1. Jg., 2001 – 10. Jg. 2010.

Publications

List of Publications

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Expeditions and Fieldwork in Earth Sciences. / Klemun, Marianne.

Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences. ed. / Elena Aronova; David Sepkoski; Marco Tamborini. 1. ed. Springer Cham, 2024. p. 1-24 (Historiographies of Science, Vol. 4).

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Äußerst komplexe Verhältnisse : Vom Wissen, Gärten und Sammlungen. / Klemun, Marianne.

RENAISSANCE einst, jetzt & hier: Katalog zur Ausstellung auf der Schallaburg. Schallaburg : Schallaburg Kulturbetriebsges.m.b.H, 2024. p. 214-218.

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Der Botanische Garten zu Klagenfurt – Das Alpinum als Tor zur Welt? Ein Wissensraum zwischen „Paradies“ und Mangelwirtschaft in den 1920er Jahren. / Klemun, Marianne.

Ein Land im Wandel: Kärnten in den 1920er Jahren. Festschrift für Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld. ed. / Heidi Rogy; Peter Wiesflecker. Klagenfurt : Verlag des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten, 2024. p. 115-122.

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Der mehr als bemerkenswerte Franz Joseph Graf Enzenberg (1747–1821). / Klemun, Marianne.

In: Bulletin Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Vol. 2024, No. 1, 2024, p. 87–96.

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Vom Sammeln musealer Naturobjekte zum gesellschaftlichen Leben : Reflexionen zum Jubiläum des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Kärnten (1848-2023). / Klemun, Marianne.

In: Ornithologischer Rundbrief, Vol. 37, 2024, p. 28-32.

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Activities

Activities in u:cris

Der Schönbrunner Botanische Garten im wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Kontext

Marianne Klemun
Talk or oral contribution
26.9.2003 - 26.9.2003

Exploring High Mountains: Space Perceptions and Changes

Marianne Klemun
Eleventh International Congress on The Enligthenment
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
3.8.2003 - 3.8.2003

Inscription and fact: 18th century mineralogical books based on travels in the Habsburg regions

Marianne Klemun
Talk or oral contribution
14.7.2003 - 14.7.2003

The Royal Natural History Collection in Vienna (18th century): from Possessing minerals as a private treasure towards territorial ambitions as consciousness

Marianne Klemun
Cultural heritage in geosciences, Mining, and Metallurgy: Museums and their Collections
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
19.5.2003 - 19.5.2003

Relatii in domeniul Stiintelor naturii

Marianne Klemun
Talk or oral contribution
1.1.2003 - 1.1.2003